Former City worker faces questions over murdered children

A former City worker faced being questioned today over the murder of her two children.

Fiona Donnison walked into a police station and told officers she had killed them before leading them to her car where their bodies were found.

The 43-year-old, who was said to have been "spaced out" with self-inflicted cuts to her wrists and arms, was arrested and taken to hospital. She is being assessed by police this morning and could face questioning today.

The bodies of her son Harry, three, and daughter Elise, two, were found wrapped in black plastic bin liners in two separate sports bags in the boot of her silver Nissan in Heathfield, East Sussex.

A police source said they had been "dead for some time". Paramedics at the scene were said to have been so traumatised they were sent home.

The find came after the mother, who has two sons from a previous marriage, Will, 15, and 12-year-old Ollie, walked into the police station at Heathfield and said: "I've killed my children."

Mrs Donnison, who worked as a credit manager for a Lloyds syndicate before quitting the City, is believed to have separated from the children's father Paul before Christmas.

She had moved away from the family home in Heathfield, 100 yards from where the bodies were found, to live in Lightwater, Surrey. The house was put on the market before Christmas and a "sold" sign was posted outside last night.

It also emerged that the couple's first child Mia died five years ago, just before her first birthday.

Mrs Donnison's first husband Derek McCrow, 55, said last night: "I have heard and I'm very sorry." He lives with his second family in Etchingham, seven miles from Heathfield.

In her Friends Reunited listing, Mrs Donnison describes her children as "wonderful". She posted a photo of Elise taken in July last year. It was accompanied by the words: "My beautiful daughter — I know I'm biased!"

Mrs Donnison is under police guard at Eastbourne hospital.